Public Notaries Act 1801
An Act for the better Regulation of Publick Notaries in England.
Whereas it is expedient, for the better prevention of illiterate and inexperienced persons being created to act as or admitted to the faculty of publick notaries, that the said faculty should be regulated in England.
1 From Aug. 1, 1801, no person in England shall act as a Publick Notary, unless duly admitted.
From and after the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and one, no person in England shall be created to act as a publick notary, F1..., unless such person shall have been duly sworn, admitted, and inrolled, F2 . . . in the court wherein notaries have been accustomarily sworn, admitted, and inrolled.
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14 Act not to extend to Proctors in Ecclesiastical Courts, Secretaries to Bishops, &c.
Provided nevertheless, and it is hereby enacted, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to any F14... person or persons necessarily created a notary publick for the purpose of holding or exercising any office or appointment, or occasionally performing any publick duty or service under government, and not as general practitioner or practitioners; anything herein-before contained to the contrary notwithstanding: . . . F15.